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De Beers Mourns Jennifer Oppenheimer

RAPAPORT… Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer, who served as head of De Beers’ philanthropic arm, has died at the age of 50. She suffered from a brain tumor, South
African newspaper Business Day reported last week. Ward Oppenheimer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard
University, where she received a law degree, according to her wedding
announcement in The New York Times from 1994. She married Jonath…